THE former president of a top piping body has warned that “watering down” a flagship programme on BBC radio would be “just as bad” as axing it – while the SNP MSP who is Holyrood ’s official piper issued his own plea to the BBC.
Pipeline – which has been running for more than 30 years – is set to be replaced, as part of a BBC Scotland budget shake-up which has seen the broadcaster decommission a number of its other music programmes, such as Jazz Nights and Classics Unwrapped.
Simon McKerrell, former president of the Competing Pipers Association and professor of media and music at Glasgow Caledonian University, launched a petition last Friday with the goal of retaining “a full-service Pipeline programme on BBC Radio Scotland”.
